Tag: tips and tricks

Well, you just finished a run. Are you stuck for ideas on what to do next? Never fear friends, I have a few to share with you. Here is the tried and true Little Anxious Runner checklist. Check it out! Celebrate Did you finish 5k or 50k? Was it an easy run, tempo run, speed

In January 2015, I started training for my first half marathon. Seeing as it was a spring run (May) AND I live in western Canada (snow, snow, all the snow), I knew I would be logging plenty of treadmill miles. After the first few five mile dread-mill runs of my training season, I quickly learned

I have been talking about self care a lot. It’s become a staple phrase in my vocabulary. If you would have told the Laurie of six months, a year ago that these words would be a staple in our vocabulary, she would have laughed at you. I’ve written about this topic before and I know I

I have been trying really hard to not label my food or eating habits. Good food, bad food, junk food, super food, treat meals, vegetarian, omnivore, plant-based. Eating is eating. I find that by labeling my foods – particularly good and bad – creates a sense of guilt, of negative connotation. I’ve written on here

Four years ago this month, this dude came into my life. My partner and I accidentally adopted a rescue dog. I say accidentally as we weren’t planning on falling in love with this tiny, scruffy terrier at Calican Rescue’s charity barbecue. After we found a new apartment (as we were living in a not so

I love interval running. I have sang it’s praises time and time again. I have not been running long enough to be able to run a half marathon straight through without walking breaks. I am not consistent enough with my training plan, my cross training, or my nutrition to be a long distance runner. Maybe

I did a lot of research before I started running. There were so many training plans out there, so many tips and tricks on how to be a runner. So many of them were filled with tons of jargon (fartlek?!? WTF is a fartlek?), that I initially felt overwhelmed. Luckily now, there are awesome people